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On his transfer to the Midlands in 1889 he moved his residence 

 to Leicester. Here he was engaged on the re-survey of parts 

 of the Coalfields of Central England with the intervening ground. 

 Besides several sheet-memoirs, he was entirely responsible for the 

 Memoirs on the South Derbyshire and Leicestershire Coalfields. 

 Prom 1901 onwards he was in charge of the officers engaged in 

 surveying the Midland District, until in 1904 he retired from the 

 service. While resident in Leicester he took much interest in the 

 work of the Leicestershire Literary & Philosophical Society, and 

 especially in its excursions, many of Avhich he planned and directed. 

 The longer excursions of 1903 and 1904 to Scarborough and Whitby 

 were led by him. It was at Leicester that the present writer had 

 the pleasure of making his acquaintance, and of working with him 

 on the geology of Charnwood Forest. 



Weakened health, due to an affected heart, gradually impaired 

 his wonted activity, and made him glad to retire when he had 

 reached the age-limit. He moved to Hampstead, and although un- 

 able to take part in field-work, he carried on his literary work 

 to the end. He succeeded in practically completing an exhaustive 

 bibliography of Yorkshire, which it is to be hoped will soon be 

 published ; but he was unable to finish the Memoir on the Thick- 

 nesses of the British Formations, on which he had begun to amass 

 material. 



All who knew Fox-Strangways were charmed with his gentle- 

 ness and modesty. A remarkably steady, systematic, untiring, 

 and persistent worker, he covered his ground in the field with 

 singular thoroughness, and his maps probably contain as much 

 careful and conscientious record of fact as those produced by any 

 Survey Officer. His charming disposition and unruffled demeanour 

 endeared him to all who had the privilege of enjoying his hospi- 

 tality or of accompanying him into the field. But this was 

 combined with a modest reserve which it was most difficult to 

 break down, and there were very few who could feel that they 

 knew him intimately. Those he trusted he trusted absolutely. 

 In his quiet, persevering way he got through a very great amount 

 of work, most of which he succeeded in finishing ; and it is by such 

 men as he was that some of the best of the world's work is done. 



Arthur Henry Stokes was born in 1842, became a mining 

 engineer and colliery-manager in the Staffordshire and Derbyshire 

 coalfields, and explored and reported upon coalfields in Sweden. 



